As many Kenyans will probably admit, I have lots of pictures of Wakenya taken at different functions. 
Sometimes, I make a picture slide then post at KSB but many pictures still remain to be seen. Sometimes a Kenyan poses at a function and gives authority that the picture could be posted at KSB but then things do not work out and the snap ends up at KSB archive.
Further, there is no time to send pictures to every Mkenya via email and this is frustrating because I end up with many nice pictures whose owners have never seen. For this reason, KSB is setting up a page for the “Picture Of The Momemt” together with a similar link.
Through this arrangement, Kenyans will be able to download their pictures as they appear at KSB. On a long term, the pictures that appear at KSB will be collected in an album and made available because they belong to Wananchi.
There will be a strict selection of pictures and only those which pass scrutiny will be posted at KSB. Pictures deemed not portraying a good image of the person will not be published.
In case your picture appears and you want it pulled down, let me know immediately. Majority of pictures were taken at public functions but there is a lot of flexibility in their publication at the blog. Feel free to let me know if a specific picture makes you uncomfortable so that we can discuss the way forward.
There is a time when a Kenyan lady had cheated her Swedish husband that she was working overtime when she was at a Kenyan disco shaking stuff the whole night. Kenyans had cameras and pictures were being taken liberally.
When I zoomed on her and took a shot, she looked happy on the arms of a Kenyan bull. Seconds later, a friend updated her that the picture could find it’s way at the blog and it is at this time that she rushed back to me to make a humble request – that she had cheated her Swedish husband that she was going for “night shift” so that she could have good time with Wakenya and that the picture should not be published at KSB. I sympathized with her and called her to witness the picture being deleted.
I thought that this was the way to go for why should KSB pile up more problems on her matrimonial front when she had to sneak out like a teenager just to have fun? In the end, I appreciated her honesty and trust. Many of these kind of pictures could still be in the archive and so let us work together to create harmony at KSB during these difficult times of national reconciliation.
Okoth Osewe
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